Several members of the FreeNAS team will be at EuroBSDCon to be held in Warsaw, Poland on October 18-21. There will be a booth in the expo area which will hand out FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 CDs as well as cool swag.

Dru Lavigne will give a half-day workshop “Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3″ on Thursday, October 18 beginning at 10:00.

John Hixson will present “FreeNAS System Architecture” at 12:10 on Saturday, October 20.

FreeNAS users may also be interested inÂ Martin Matuska’s presentation “Tuning ZFS on FreeBSD” at 10:55 on Sunday, October 21.

Another instructional video has been uploaded to Youtube. This video demonstrates how to configure the Transmission, Firefly, and MiniDLNA plugins on FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 to work together as a streaming media platform.

This BETA includes a refactoring of the Active Directory and LDAP integration. It has a rework of serial port support, adding the ability to set the serial port speed. The NFS sharing was refactored in BETA2 with an eye towards maintaining compatability with sharing schemes set up in previous FreeNAS releases. The refactored sharing is more powerful and flexible than previous releases, while enforcing the OS based rules. Support for the LSI “skinny” RAID controllers was added, including the 9265/9285.

Upgrading an existing ZFS pool is a one way street, once the upgrade is done it is not possible to use older versions of FreeNAS, nor is it possible to downgrade your pool. This upgrade can be done by running zpool upgrade from the CLI, it is not done automatically via the upgrader, nor is there a way to do the upgrade from the GUI.

Recent Comments

Yep, we have split FreeNAS 10 into multiple components parts largely to make it MUCH easier to hack on. You can now hack on the GUI straight from your Unix system or Mac, in fact, without even *having* a FreeNAS box

It seems like a lot of folks are unaware that you can still create a UFS filesystem (newfs is not going away at the command-line) and, for that matter, can create a ZFS pool on a single disk if you just want to be able to import that disk as a pool, copy data to it, and then export it again as part of your backup strategy?